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Interview
to achieve best reactivity at all times, we would like
our employees to be trained in GibbsCAM and for
everyone to be able to modify a program without
having to explain everything to another person. We
also have 2 GibbsCAM workstations from which the
programs can be sent to the machines via our DNC.
GibbsCAM work station at Decovi. Equipped with two stations “to ensure flexibility”, the programming
department can react rapidly and efficiently.
FS : What are the benefits of programming with
GibbsCAM for Décovi
CC : For us, it’s of course the standardization of the
programming : we’ve got 2 machine parks, one with
fixed headstock machines and the other with sliding
headstock machines, like our Tornos DECO. Without
CAM, in the event of over-charging the machines,
everything needs to be reprogrammed to move production
from one machine to another. There is a
genuine and considerable benefit to be had from the
interchange-ability of production on the different
machines. GibbsCAM provides us with more flexible
use of our machine parks.
FS : Who is in charge of programming on
GibbsCAM at Decovi Is it IT people or machine
technical staff
CC : Here, GibbsCAM users are the ones who carry
out the programming and the setting up of the
machine to production. To ensure higher quality
and to make our staff work with more motivation,
we believe in the benefits to be had from personnel
seeing a job through from start to finish. Because
we often receive customer requests to change the
workpieces during production, program changes
need to be done swiftly. For this reason and in order
FS : How was GibbsCAM integrated within your
company
CC : We had an agreement with Productec for a
training programme for all our staff.
The first phase involved training all our staff in the
basics needed to work with GibbsCAM then to let
them progress at their own speed. The second phase
involved building on their skills, training them in more
advanced operations, encouraging them to employ a
systematic utilization of GibbsCAM. In certain departments,
adopting GibbsCAM happened very quickly,
from the first month. In others, however, we soon
realized that staff were choosing the easy option and
Simulation of a thread whirling operation for the production of a
bone screw.
Illustration of a tool path using the UGV technology for roughing and
finishing of milling on a screw-machined part. (ProAXYZ HSMP module
for GibbsCAM). The benefits of this process are time savings and especially
much less milling-tool wear, hence major savings on tooling costs.
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